When Republics Fall

I’ve been out of town, so I will let Ben Stein sum up exactly what has happened here. You MUST click on the link and read the whole thing:

But think of what we have lost: I am writing this on Sunday night, September 16, 2012. The Obama administration is still apologizing to the Muslims worldwide, even in Libya even as the President of Libya says the killings there were not spontaneous but were long premeditated and the nutty movie was only a smokescreen. Our government is still saying, “Sorry,” to violent mobs because an American citizen exercised his first Amendment rights. Incredibly, Jay Carney, White House spokesman, is spinning a complete fairy tale that the Islamists really like America and Mr. Obama. The murderers are just upset about a movie trailer that came out months ago. How stupid do they think we Americans are? If Mr. Obama really believes, he belongs in a straitjacket. If not, his spokesman is the biggest fantasist of all time.

Look, maybe sweet talk and apologies have a place somewhere. Maybe this should be said in private, between diplomats. But to apologize publicly to killers and arsonists over free speech in America… this isn’t done… and of course the first amendment protects people outside the mainstream. Tom Paine, Samuel Adams, John Adams — these were considered nuts by the British. The whole idea is to protect all speech.

And in Barack Obama’s America, the man who made the movie is brought in for law enforcement questioning. This really happened just yesterday.

And Mr. Barack Obama will be President for four more years and then quite possibly Mrs. Clinton, arch apologist for American values, for years afterwards.

When republics fall, it’s not always slow. It can be like slamming a door.

For the U.S. government to try to manage the social psychology of perpetually aggrieved Arabs by interfering in constitutionally protected private conduct is not just a fool’s errand. It is an evil errand, for it makes our government the tool of enemies who seek our submission. And it ignores the very dangerous development we are witnessing, which is the apparent breakdown of our ability to maintain safe embassies in the Muslim world. That breakdown is an institutional failure of other governments, and of our own. It has absolutely nothing to do with any spoofs of any deity, nor with whatever dumb reason may be motivating hateful people to get violent on the Arab street.

The Obama administration has been at pains to argue that the attacks on our embassies are not protests against the U.S. as such, but only protests against some reprehensible conduct by some person or another. But it doesn’t make any difference. The only responsibility of the U.S. government in the current crisis is to secure our embassies and ambassadors against whatever threat they may face — chiefly by ensuring that other governments are willing and able to meet basic obligations of sovereignty. That responsibility is as solemn as safeguarding both the international system and our constitutional rights. In that sense, the administration’s public response has been a dereliction of duty.

Historically, empires fall because they spread their power too thin outside of their borders. They do it militarily and finance it by printing money, which leads to runaway inflation. THAT is what is bringing this great country down. That is what has brought all empires down.

We need to withdraw our troops from harms way, stop sending money to try and influence people that hate us, and get out of this constant cycle of war. That is the only solution.

Please write an article about the ballot box. In my opinion, based on intense action of the Obama justice department to block all new voter ID laws, I believe this is all part of their plan to re-elect Obama. As you probably, know, the voter roles cannot be purged 2 years prior to an election.

With that said, how many people on those roles have died, moved away, or may have committed a felony? All reasons they are in eligible to cast a vote. With voter ID laws blocked, and voter roles open to anyone to view, what would stop an organized effort in close swing states, to have votes cast straight party line democrat by many of these people who won’t be showing up to vote? It would be very easy to walk up and say your one of these in eligible voters, and cast the ballot.

We have already seen on video someone portraying to be Eric Holder, and being told he could go vote as long as he says he is him. No ID required. Your word is good enough.

Call me a conspiracy theorist. Call me naive and stupid. My hope is that the Republican party is aware of this possibility and has in place some type of system to identify and check all these ballots that should not be cast this year. This could be the most fraudalant election in our history. It’s up to us to protect the integrity of the ballot box, or, “we the people”, will no longer control who wins our elections.

“And in Barack Obama’s America, the man who made the movie is brought in for law enforcement questioning. This really happened just yesterday.”
The man who made the movie is on federal probation. He was brought in for questioning because to see if he violated his probation. He was brought in by federal probation officers. I think anyone on probation who got caught up in this film could expect a call from their probation officer, as is the probation officer’s right. To imply the government questioned the guy simply for something he said is typical Ben Stein and Texas Sparkle.

In the true fashion of the GOP, when you run out of facts and answers you start with the mud-slinging. The truth is, if we hadn’t been sending billions of dollars of aid and weapons to Israel since the 1940’s, the U.S would not be a victim of terrorism at all.

Everyone is entitled to an opinion. ‘m not sure what Stein thinks should be done to “ensure other governments are willing and able to meet the basic obligations of sovereignty”, but any criticism without saying what should have been done in his opinion is just hot air. Would he have us invade? Send troups?

“For the U.S. government to try to manage the social psychology of perpetually aggrieved Arabs” Wow and you dont have a clue why they are perpetually aggrieved do you. Well go back as far as you want starting with right after WW11 when countries who didnt have the right or authority divided up the middle east. And they didnt divide it up according to people or cultures or clans or religious convictions they divided it up according to OIL. But being a good christian nation we tend to forget all the atrocities we commit WHY? because we think we deserve all the good of the earth and to hell with everyone else. You didnt do to well in history did you or did you just conveniently forget history when you made this asinine statment. IM conservative and im christian and i get along well with nearly all persuasions and classes of people simply because i dont think im better than anyone else unlike elitists who think they deserve.
When you really become a student of history (with an open heart and mind) it shames you to know what has been done in the name of christianity unless of course you have no conscience. Heck we have medal of honor recipients who rode into villages full of nothing but innocent women and children and slaughtered them. they are our heroes.LOL